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Sat Mar 10 01:33:40 UTC 2007
Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life, Page: 32
Contributed by: Mushin Schilling.
James Hillman said
Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life, Page: 32
Contributed by: Mushin Schilling.
Character is characters; our nature is a plural complexity, a multiphasic polysemous weave, a bundle, a tangle, a sleeve. […]
I like to imagine a person’s psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.
Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life, Page: 37
Contributed by: Mushin Schilling.
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel “blest by everything.”